Stevie Nicks wrote a new album during the California wildfires while stuck in a hotel for 92 days after being evacuated from her home.
The Fleetwood Mac legend had to leave her Pacific Palisades mansion when fires tore through Southern California earlier this year, destroying over 18,000 homes and claiming 30 lives.
Instead of letting the chaos consume her, Stevie turned the experience into something powerful. “Because of the fires, I was sitting in a hotel for 92 days, and at some point during that last part of the 92 days I said: ‘You know what? I feel like I’m on the road but there’s no shows,’” she shared on stage at the Pollstar Music Awards.
She added, “I’m just sitting here by myself because everybody else is at the house doing all the remediations and everything, and it’s just me sitting here and I thought: ‘You need to go back to work.’ And I did, and I have seven songs.”
Stevie’s calling it her “ghost record” because the songs just came to her during that time. And this album hits different. She says these tracks are the most honest and autobiographical songs she’s ever written. “They’re not airy fairy songs where you’re wondering who they’re about. They’re real stories of memories of mine of fantastic men,” Stevie said, not holding back.
Thankfully, her home survived the fires. During her performance at the FireAid benefit concert, she gave a heartfelt shoutout to the firefighters who saved her house. “I was pretty sure, as they whisked me away and evacuated me – my least favorite word now – that when I turned around and looked, my house would be up in flames,” she said. But her house made it through – and she even joked it “stands strong, just like her mom.”
She also dedicated her iconic track “Landslide” to the brave first responders, calling their efforts nothing short of heroic.
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